what is asuna's skill level?

so I have been watching a lot of SAO and something has always bugged me. see when we see asuna fighting kirito says that he thought she was a new playing, but that she had great from and she was fast. because he couldn't see the tip of her blade. as the story line goes on and such we find that she has joined one of the top guilds and is even next in command.

so that begs to question exactly what is her skill level? at first I thought maybe she might have been a beta tester or maybe even a season player of mmor games. which might explain how she got so good at it while in SAO. however her lack of basic info, like how she didn't know about the second status bar under her name. makes me think that she probably wasn't that skilled with other games.

so what was her skill level at the end of the game? I would guess that's its pretty high to had done as well as she did, and she did max out other skills while there. such as cooking, so would it be safe to assume that her's would have been close to kirito's?